Relax-and-Recover (ReaR in short) is a simple yet powerful, easy-to-setup, full-featured and leading open-source bare metal disaster recovery and system migration solution, written in Bash. It is a modular and configurable framework with numerous ready-to-use workflows for common situations. ReaR creates a bootable rescue system and/or system backup in various formats. You can boot your
Don’t risk data loss. Back up your valuable data from the Linux command line. We’ll be using the rsync command for this, and we’ve even found some nice optional graphical interfaces for it. There are many ways to accomplish making a backup copy of your files. We wanted to show you a robust, flexible, and reliable
This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update
If you would like to backup your hard disk, there is a simple way to do it by using “dd” command. The dd command utility is used to copy files or disk images from one location to another. Using dd, you can backup an unmounted disk as a (compressed) disk image which is then stored
Most of the time, you can easily manage your database with web-based tools such as phpMyAdmin. Unfortunately, there are times when you need to restore a large amount of data. This can’t be accomplished through phpMyAdmin because of PHP’s limits (either the maximum time a PHP script can use or the maximum file size upload). Using the MySQL
